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Show Peggy Fleming Wins Skating Gold Medal: First For U.S. 14 Sunday Herald S0D4YTHBRDARY 11, se By WILLIAM SUNDERLAND the first jump 1 would have to Peggy after her scores were\have been waiting for all myjand Christina Kaiser, with GRENOBLF, France (UPI)— 80 a little more cautiously and fiashed 2:245, gave Holland the silver life.” Giving the United States its first gold medal of the 10th not flat out, Winter Olympics, Said breathless “But this wes the moment ! Peggy Flem- ing proved herself the princess of the skating world with a superb performance The victory by Miss Fleming,/and bronze in a chartreuse Russia's Lydia costume honoring the Char- tor in all four treuse Mountain range above four years ago, medals while Skoblikova, y Olympic events was 11th Grenoble, climaxed 8 fabulous) Groenningen, second in tw Saturday night in the women's figure skating event. Sweeping a daring routine of leaps, loops and spins in the Stade de Glace, America’s dark-haired darling of the ice attained an almost perfect score. Twice world champion and sixth in the 1964 Olympics, the elegant 19-year-old Colorado College junior from Colorado Springs dazzled the judges with| her all-out free skating as she| but {had in the five American comeback after 40/eyents at Innsbruck four years airplane crash in Belgium in) ago, finaily won his first gold 1961 wiped out 18 top US.jmedai with a clocking of 47 skaters and coaches. | minutes, 54.2 seconds for the 9.3 — Only Brigh! Spot _ Utah has had manynotable “firsts” in the wild- Miss Fleming's brilliant show-/ life management fields throughout the nearly 75 years ing brightened an otherwise we have had a fish and gamedivision of state govern- gloomy day for the Americans. the women’s ment. None has received more notice, nor adoption, in Besides and speéd skating, recent years than the program regarding gun safety downhill the U.S. team suffered yet! in the home. | another injury. The need for such a program was first discussed| In the prestig ious women's : by the F&G commission and division personnel about downhill ski event %-year-old mile cross-country. Finland's Eero Maentyranta double gold medal winner Innsbruck, finished second |Cunnar Larscon of Sweden was + surprise third, The best U.S. showing was made by Mike Gallagher o/ Killington, Vt, 34th. Mike Elliott of Durango, Colo., was 1960, At that time it was noted that while the relative-|Tyrclean beauty Olga Pail led 4ist. ly new Hunter Safety program for juveniles was| Sstria to the first, third and At the bobsled run in Alpe compulsory figures earlier in| bringing a remarkable reduction in gun accidents) fourth places in a dramatic q’Huez, brilliant sunshine da- | the week. | there wasstill a serious need to bring an awareness|#ssault against French favo-/maged the ice chute for the Pretty Poggy averaged 5.8 on | of the safe handling and storage of guns in the homs. [rites ,./second straight day and the in her the world’s final two heats of the two-man Since most good habits, or bad, begin in the home it! Miss Pall, most beautiful gas station event were postponed for nine ‘of 11,000 but then the judges | was reasoned that such a training program should be attendant and certainly the best hours in the hope an overnight gave her a straight series of| added to the gun aafety training program . on skiis, beat Mir of cold snap would re-freeze the The program was begun in 1962 through the France and Christ! Haag of| ice, Even that delay may not ve 5.9's—with 6.0 being perfect and | unheard of—as her marks for medium of educational TV. It was “pitched” to reach Austria. jenough, officials indicated. her performance. and interest the lady of the house and acceptance was The Americans lost Iyear-/ The bobsled injury debated The third American girl to assured and heart warming when more than 1,800) old Karen Budge of Jackson! whether to declare 40-year-old win the goid medal in the last home makers signed up and qualified under this first | Hole, Why., with a dislocated Eugenio Monti of Italy the guld four Olympiads, Miss Fleming such program in the nation. | shoulder in a freak accident 90| medal winner on the basis of downhill | his M4 secondlead over the first ran up ‘a total of nine ordinals There was no attempt nor intent to teach the minutes and 1,970.5 points to 18 ordinals lady of the house how to shoot a gun, Rather, the| race began and watched in|two years but Monti objected and 1,882.3 points for Gabriele dismay as the Austrians fi-! “I've never won an Olympic goal was to show how a gunshould be kept and stored| Germany, who when not in use, as it is most of the year. | ished first, third and fourth. gold medal,” said the nine-time Expansion of this effort now finds several Kiki Cutter of Bend, Ore., was! world champion, “‘and I don’t agg ay finisher far back|want it after only half a thousand women folk now aware of the needs and in 17th place. | competition. I don’t want with the ability end know how to do something about The U.S. also was shut out in| tite” oe it, And while the instructive program is still available the women’s 1,500-meter speed) Jf warm weather continues, once each year over TV, there are nearly one third of Skating as Kalja Mustonen of |however, the four-man event the some 7000 Hunter Safety teachers now qualified Finland shattered Russian dom-' may have to be cancelled since ination of the oval. |rules insist the four-man sleds ™) to teach this program as well, This effort to take gun safety into the home is Americans also finished fer| must have four days of practice now adopted in a number of states.It also is sponsored behind in the men’s 15-kilometer and they’re running out of days. ski race won by by and a major effort of the National Rifle Association. cross-country Groenningen of Norway. In 1967 the NRA added 787 new certified instructors Harald Miss Budge, warming on a os 8,439 already engaged in home firearms safety ‘actice slope, crashed into a on skis and injured her) This Utah first has unquestionably been a major shoulder so severely she could contributing factor to the great reduction of juvenile- not start. “It's like a nightmare, a bad caused gun accidents. Here at home the total fi training program has resulted in an enviable statistic dream,” said U.S. ski coach last year when only four accidents were attributable Bob Beattie, who had already GUNNISON, Colo, (UPI) — lost three other skiers with Wyoming's Paul Soriano pinned to juveniles. Compare this to just a dozen years ago when nearly 80% of all gun accidents were juvenile- serious injuries and was still Western State College’s John Viworried about the injured Co ee pees Se SD caused, ankle suffered by Billy Kidd of ivision and four other Cowboys One can hope with optimism that this record will Stowe, Vt., won decisions to lead Wyoming be achieved nationally as the total firearms safety ‘Wednesday. to a 19-13 victory over Western program is expanded in each ctate. And as the years Finn Wins State Cullete here. pass and these properly trained youngsters take over On oe at Tees In the 190 Ib, class Western from some of us careless oldsters it is not too much -yearMiss Mustonen/ State's Glen Younger decisioned to hope that gun accidents will become something of churned the 1,500 meters in 2 a rare occurrence. When this happens a major share ‘minutes, 224 seconds while| the of credit will, as aneos the lady of the house. Poke Matmen Whip Western ott l right Ute Football Coach Adds SOM HCCC OH MME BH HOHSOHHHOKS az i BA HE FH £ ee 5 i i z i[ F Olympic Spotlight Another Aide On Slalom Today Mulloy to Enter Salt Lake Meet fourth assistant hired by Meek, who took the Utah reins last month. played for: hy a i BB SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Scesniak, | sive line coach, He became the Hunters and fishermen spent nearly 800 million |* recreation days on their sports last year and traveled 85 billion passenger miles to do so. . . Ice fishing at 13 victory over John Godbe, Flaming Gorge isstill producing good catches of trout. Fri-|but Wyoming’s Dale Kujath deShorter trips to Nine Mile near Manti or Mantua east day’s 500 meters. cisioned James Snyder 163 in of Brigham should also bring some trout to creel for Carolina Geijsson, in 2:22.7, the 152 Ib. class, ice anglers not having time for the longer trip... Mid-March is about the earliest one can expect good bass fishing at Powell Lake. It should peak about late April-early May. Presently there is some excellent fishing for crappie to a pound and a half in the Wahweep arm of the lower lake . . . Ninety plus dollars and a new picture tube late one of our F&G officers decided to put his eight year old boy through the hunter safety course. Word has it that a pellet gun Santa left the boy at Christmas time proved to be a CHAMROUSSE, France;season, and his teammate, fine big gamerifle as he “downed” an elk running (UPI)—The spotlight’ of the/Dumeng Giovanoli are rated across their TV screen... . A baby crow is called a glamour alpine skiing events highly. simp. If this is short for simpleton then itis certainly turns back to downhill gold’ The Austrians, traditionally a misnomer because the crow is most often known as ily| France's greatest rivals, have found the giant slalom their one of our more wily forms of wildlife. weakest event and thus are not Yours for fun, i iosage el ea ka 5 Casey The strongest U.S. entry Ryun Turns In Best SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Veteran tennis star Gardnar Mulloy will head talented field ' ‘of titors Feb. 22-25 in a [rational and. regional. teonis tournament at the Salt Lake Scesniak spent two assistant at the University of Tennis Club, Missouri and has been at Iowa Championships will be devided 35 and 55 cate{s| State for three seasons. He will in the Nai eat to the University of Utah gories and the Western 45 division, It marks the second ). 16, in a row for the cham P.T. Barnum bought a trolley Assistant coaches selected by his|Meek earlier include Jim LaRee former head coach at Arizona and Ken Vierra and Jim {on the Utah staff. Olivas Signs DALLAS (UPI)—Quarterback Fire & Casvaity Inewrance Agency Located in Prove er Orem Reply to Box 161 Careof this paper : a 71 I e-- e By STEVE SMILANICH Sports bg aad i ° i | funique feat of winning three|Billy Kidd, 24, of Sowe, Vt. His jing gold medals,|chances,however, have race as the we a mild ankle, favoritite. ednesday ‘The race will be held in two while training for the downhill, heats, one Sunday and one| Kidd, who won a silver medal Monday, down Chamrousse’s|in slalom at the last Olympic Vallons Trail which drops 1,650\games, had been meters with 2 440-meter verti-| among the top contestants until beak saieckallaoo Seer cal ae tot dene The mark ci 3:56.4 was) Killy, “guper-star” of other top U.S. entry is set by Tom O'Hara of Loyola of) alpine ie to get|Jimmy Heuga, 24, of Tahoe q eed zi z& i a 3Fi ot g z ants euoxe predecessor,|! gs. Scesniak’s apMike Gi pointment leaves one vacancy |Schop! oor NEW YORK (UPI) — Jim Chicago in 1964. Ryun, the methodical miler| Ryun, who holds the world from the University of Kansas, outdoor record in the mile at ‘got excited by the crowd for one $:51.1, decided to set the pace! of the few times in his briliant career and the lanky riddle distance runner wi his best indoor performance. expectations, Ryun, who usually races! “T was real surprised by the oblivious to the crowd and jtime since I haven't done any| noises, was all ears Frid speed work yet,” said Ryun, “I night as he made his Olympic |figured the man to beat was year debut and the old Madison Bair and I thought I'd better Square Garden farewell with a take some of the sting out of same 3:57,1 clocking in the him early.” Ryun, whose best previous Bilied as the “Last Garden indoor mark was 3:58.6, overMile”, Ryun made the occasion took Bair on the and NEW YORK (UPI) — Bob ‘one to remember as he made a never trailed as he cracked the ‘en of the University of runaway of the glamor contest |meet record of 4:006 set last California Brig-| in the final track and field meet lyear by Patrick. ‘Staged in the arena. Crowd Excites Ryan Patrick Second “The crowd got me excited. It While a capacity crowd of wasn’t a yrudge race, I’m very 15,002 roared its approval the 20 good friends with Dave (Payear-old Kansas business aimi- trick) and Sam (Bair),” the 6 nistration student beat runnerup a two inch, 170 pound Ryun Dave Patrick of Villanova by 40 said. . Little Sam Bair of Kent His performance was the : |i HU flop. |Hannifan, who served as assit-|Si n e oie i zi ivia ¢ te 2 » e eli is H !ite i iti af8% 7 z B iB ut eee at FEF 2< & E iie FEE it State Crew 19-13 Seagren Edges Aliti In Vault State, who was expected to|obvious highlight of the meet ae for first place,|sponsored by the U.S. ‘Track |and Field Federatior, Besides being the fastest Three other meet records feli indoor mile of his career, jt was in the games which attracted the fourth sub-four-minute mile top collegiate stars from across indoors for Ryun and the third'the nation. his greatest competition from |City, Calif., who won a bronze medal in the 1964 Olympic reigning world giant slalom Slalom. Traditionally « slow champion, pte and Georges Mau- starter, Heuga did poorly in pre-Olympie international comduit. The French trio should petiion this season but is receive its strongest challenge reportedly back in form. from the powerful Swiss who Killy drew the third starting this year have excelled in the position in Sunday's first heat of giant - sislom. Switzerland's 4 the event. Kidd drew seventh mund Bruggmann, winner a while Heuga will go off three major giant slalom’s this Cougar Swimmers Win Four for 8-1 Record |